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Definition of Eyrir
1. Noun. 100 aurar equal 1 krona in Iceland.
Definition of Eyrir
1. Noun. A subdivision of currency, equal to a 1/100th of an Icelandic króna ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eyrir
1. a monetary unit of Iceland [n AURAR]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyrir
| eying eylettersite eyliad eyliads eyndill eyne eyot eyots eyr eyra | eyras eyren eyres eyrie eyries eyrir (current term) eyry eyselite eyup ezcurrite | ezed ezetimibe ezh ezhes ezine ezines ezo-yama-hagi ezrin eztlite f'rinstance |
Literary usage of Eyrir
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Viking Age: The Early History, Manners, and Customs of the Ancestors of by Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1889)
"... -eyrir (gron = lip), which meant that the pain was so great that the lips of
the man trembled under the operation.1 If the giver of the wound was ..."
2. The Story of Burnt Njal: Or, Life in Iceland at the End of the Tenth Century by George Webbe Dasent (1861)
"But thirty pennies shall be in every eyrir, whether it be by weight or by tale.
... the eyrir, and that it calls silver of this kind " the old law-silver. ..."
3. The Finding of Wineland the Good: History of the Icelandic Discovery of America by William Dudley Foulke, Arthur Middleton, Reeves, Eric (1895)
"90]; an 'eyrir' [plur. 'aurar'] of silver was equal to 144 skillings [cf. ...
An 'eyrir' would, therefore, have been equal to three crowns [kroner], ..."
4. The Origin of the English Nation by Chadwick, Hector Munro (1907)
"The units were the ore (O. Norse eyrir), roughly equivalent to our ounce, and
the mark, the latter containing eight ores. In early times however the weight ..."
5. Social Scandinavia in the Viking Age by Mary Wilhelmine Williams (1920)
"The mark was generally one half of the modern sixteen-ounce pound in weight, and
was made up of eight ounces, or aurar; the eyrir generally included three ..."
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